Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community As we welcome Rosh Hashanah and the beginning of a new year, all of us at Tivuch Shelly Real...
Editor’s Note: This article is based on a 36-minute video interview conducted by Izzo Zwiren with Curtis Sliwa two weeks ago. It has been edited and shortened for clarity and brevity. The entire interview is available to view on our website.
As America Marks 250 Years, a Historic Recognition of Shabbos Highlights Religious Liberty and Jewish Unity
This Friday night, across Queens, thousands of tiny flames will flicker to life almost simultaneously.
New York City - and the Jewish world - is in mourning after a mass shooting at a Midtown Manhattan office building on Monday left four people dead and one critically wounded. Among the victims were two young Jewish professionals: Wesley LePatner, 43, a senior managing director at Blackstone, and Julia Hyman, 27, an associate at Rudin Management.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was the rabbi of a small shul in Portland, Oregon. That year, we were saying Selichos in the home of a congregant who was sitting shivah — in a small community, the entire minyan moves to the mourner’s home. We had just gathered in his living room and were about to begin when one of our members rushed in, visibly agitated. “Stop! Turn on the television!”
Dominos? You, WE, and NYC need more dominos to fall so we can have the one on one vote we want in November against socialism.
There are many New Yorkers who witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center a quarter century ago who have yet to visit the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in downtown Manhattan. Depending on who is asked, the memories are too traumatizing, and there are countless other neighborhood memorials and commemorative events where one can pause to reflect.
